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Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation : a preliminary impact evaluation
Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah - 2017
-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the US with Haitian … and the potential for policies of this kind to complement more traditional forms of development and humanitarian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612941
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Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423766
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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269072
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Risk management among the poor : the case of microfinancial services
Arun, Thankom; Bendig, Mirko - 2010
This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household's use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally probit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009006945
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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country
Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015
In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388311
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Economic mobility and fairness in a developing country : evidence from Peru
Castro, Juan Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo; Medina, Santiago; … - 2023
Periods of rapid economic growth in developing countries have been well studied in terms of poverty and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366727
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Governance and public service delivery in India
Afridi, Farzana - 2017
due to absence of a market for these services or poverty. This paper synthesizes the findings of the International Growth … Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the … quality of public services affects economic growth via its impact on poverty alleviation, human capital formation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694812
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Diasporas and conflict
Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Verdier, Thierry - 2016
We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544003
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Child labor and the arrival of refugees : evidence from Tanzania
Kofol, Chiara; Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2017
Tanzania between 1991 and 2004. The study uses longitudinal data from the Kagera Health and Development Survey. Using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785599
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Globalisation and the gender earnings gap : evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015
Robertson, Raymond; López Acevedo, Gladys; Savchenko, … - 2018
This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913125